A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Step | Mindset Monday
The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience
Tom Ferry
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🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What have you been putting off? |
| 0:02.0 | Think about it. |
| 0:03.0 | Lautu once said that the journey of a thousand miles |
| 0:06.3 | begins with a single step. |
| 0:08.4 | So many people are afraid to take that step. |
| 0:11.2 | My question for you is if I went to the darkest |
| 0:15.5 | corners of your brain, the darkest corners of your memory, and and tried to |
| 0:19.8 | discover what is it that you're so passionate about something that you love more than anything else |
| 0:25.4 | but for whatever reason you can't figure out that first step so there is no action right |
| 0:30.4 | you're only in your head I would ask you what is that one little thing you can do |
| 0:35.2 | is it could be just as simple as saying to someone I'm gonna start right? |
| 0:39.3 | It could be that action. It could just be writing a plan for the first time. It could be doing what many of my friends have |
| 0:46.7 | talked about for years. We talk about Fukau, which is you get so caught up and the how you might be able to figure that one out. I know that sounds horrible. Please take it the right way |
| 0:56.8 | Sometimes you got to let go with the how and just get into action. |
| 1:00.9 | Right? Is it making phone calls? Is it meeting the right people? Is it |
| 1:04.0 | declaring to your friends, I'm committed to this. Life is really short. I think of one of my |
| 1:09.5 | friends we were sitting one day, the Holiday Inn, in Irvine having lunch. We were doing a |
| 1:14.6 | workshop there and his phone rang and it was his mother and his mother said |
| 1:18.8 | your father just died. Your dad just died and I remember running up to his room, grabbing all the stuff, |
| 1:25.3 | throwing him on an airplane, sending it back to Chicago, and he called me the day before the funeral. |
| 1:30.8 | And it was just like this extraordinary moment because we were just like how do you |
| 1:34.7 | how do you say to someone who's having this kind of life experience like how to be |
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